Alien Isolation (PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 & PS4)

[Armor and Sword]

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I have the Nostromo edition on PS4.....but it's a Christmas gift for my 9 year old son......LOL.

We love the Alien franchise.....so the wait is killing me....I have read so much positive feedback...can't wait to play this puppy.

[Mr. Hanky]

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Takes quite a bit for the game to get going, but that first real encounter with the Alien is intense with the horror music ambiance. My big gripe so far "early" in the game is that the flow is really disrupted IMO with the stuff like panel re-wirings and hunting down keycards.

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You just have that first intense/stressful encounter with the Alien and then it's right back to hunting down keycards, jacking around with wiring panels, and trying to unlock doors. Maybe it's all the IPA's i've consumed tonight but it's really annoying.

[Mr. Hanky]

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Was curious what some others did in the situation where....

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Following Axel's death you come into a room where a woman shoots at you and then calls in her 3 friends as backup. I killed each one of these people to take their supplies. I was wondering if anyone left them alive and then when you're in that room w/ the alien, if it helped to have those people alive to distract the alien.

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Don't know, I killed them too. That first encounter w/ the alien was pretty intense.

[JBH3]

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I have been playing this game all day today. It truly is a fun and engaging title. The music amps up your adrenaline and avoiding the alien is a thrill ride. It also is challenging because there are no way points, and while there is a map its only updated the more you explore and find the update consoles.


Despite its 5.3 review from IGN, its well worth the purchase and definitely something I will play through again and again in an attempt to make through w/out dying.


EDIT: For the record I have MUCH MORE enjoyed Alien: Isolation over Destiny...

[Mr. Hanky]

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So far this game feels like it can't seem to decide whether it wants to be Alien (you vs. the creature) or Alien 3 (you and the good humans vs. the bad humans vs. the creature).

It kind of sucks when it's being all Alien 3, but it's real tense when it's just you, the giant space ship, and the Alien. I haven't even seen the xeno yet outside of one cutscene and I'm still freaking out playing this, because you can hear it (or at least something) moving around a lot.

I'm going to stop playing now before I finally meet the xeno face to face (it feels like I've been stalked for a while now) and ruin my chances of sleeping well tonight.

I can agree with that take. I played most of last night and all day today. I can see maybe a bit of Alien 3 vibe in there, but android-heavy sections give off some other kind of weird vibe that doesn't particularly feel like the Alien universe. Those are the worst parts of the game. The best parts, of course, are when you're being stalked......especially when it's dark with flashing lights and alarms like at the end of Alien when Ripley is making her escape.

My advice for anybody who hasn't started yet would be to play on Easy. Because the save system in this game is unforgiving and the game is still plenty hard on the Easy setting. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be on the Hard setting......which the game encourages. I started on Medium and had to tone it down because it was getting frustrating replaying sections over and over. And even then you still die alot and have to repeat plenty often.

I really wish there was an auto save feature for when you hit certain benchmarks, like acquiring a key card. You could've spend 30 minutes getting it, spent another 15-20 evading the alien and hiding trying to get to where you use it and then die just before you get there......and have to repeat the whole process all over.

[JBH3]

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Once you get that flamethrower this game gets a lot more awesome...just...don't run out of fuel....

[JBH3]

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Beat it tonight! Very nice story, loads of suspense and challenging....boy was it challenging. This game has been one of my more enjoyable experiences on the XB1.

[half-fast]

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Beat it tonight! Very nice story, loads of suspense and challenging....boy was it challenging. This game has been one of my more enjoyable experiences on the XB1.

How long would you day it took you?

[JBH3]

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How long would you day it took you?

The XB1 smartglass app said it took me 30 hours.

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[Picci]

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Beat it tonight! Very nice story, loads of suspense and challenging....boy was it challenging. This game has been one of my more enjoyable experiences on the XB1.

Just wondering JB, did you play Crew Expendable and or Last Survivor? Glad to hear your happy with the story. I shelved this to play at a later date. Not that I don't want to play it but it's my last attempt to salvage Madden at the moment or I'm trading it in for something else.

[JBH3]

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Just wondering JB, did you play Crew Expendable and or Last Survivor? Glad to hear your happy with the story. I shelved this to play at a later date. Not that I don't want to play it but it's my last attempt to salvage Madden at the moment or I'm trading it in for something else.

I have not played Survival mode yet, but am looking forward to it; when you attempt to play it, and have not finished the story the game tells you that there may be possible spoilers so I wanted to finish the story first.


As for the Nostromo mission, I will dive into that one soon too.


My goal is to go back and re-play mission 16 on free roam in order to obtain all of the collectibles I missed; I have 3/10 Nostromo audio logs & 42/100 Id tags. I want to get those collectibles knocked out so that I can complete another playthrough on the hardest difficulty and one where I make it through the entire game without dying (achievements for both).

[Mr. Hanky]

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Just finished the game.......finally. Here is my post-op review.

This is not the Alien game you're looking for. It is the best Alien game ever made, but the bar is pretty low so it's not hard to achieve that status. IMO the IGN and Gamespot reviews are right on. This game had some brilliant moments early on and maybe up until around the middle (at the very latest) of the game with a beautifully rendered Alien and an engaging stalk mechanic....but then it stretched into absolute tedium. It wasn't even fun after that. At that point you just want to get it over with but it's like a long bad movie you've invested so much time into that you have to finish it. And for all the time you spend crawling all over the station pushing endless buttons, pulling endless levers, and (like the reviews said) having the goal posts moved all over the place......the ending is completely unsatisfying. This game is like an overly long novel that needed an editor to trim the fat (at least half the game) but was asleep at his desk and let it through to be published without the edits. Literally 99% of of everything in the game that had the hostile androids should have been cut out. They had nothing to do with the story, unlike Ash and Bishop. It was needless filler and it totally killed the flow of the game.

We all desperately wanted this game to be the Alien game we've all been waiting for, the game it looked like it could be in the teasers leading up to launch. One of my earliest memories as a child is seeing the Alien trailer on tv as a 5 year old in 1979. I still have the image of that trailer and my perception of it as a child etched into my brain. I've been with this franchise since the very beginning. But this is not that game. It could have been. But it's not.

I will still say every Alien fan should play it once, on the Easy difficulty so it doesn't drag on till half past never (although it still will anyway). It's still plenty hard enough on that setting. I'm willing to bet that after finishing it, most will be all too happy to trade it right in and be happy to be finally done with it.

[J_Posse]

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Just finished the game.......finally. Here is my post-op review.

This is not the Alien game you're looking for. It is the best Alien game ever made, but the bar is pretty low so it's not hard to achieve that status. IMO the IGN and Gamespot reviews are right on. This game had some brilliant moments early on and maybe up until around the middle (at the very latest) of the game with a beautifully rendered Alien and an engaging stalk mechanic....but then it stretched into absolute tedium. It wasn't even fun after that. At that point you just want to get it over with but it's like a long bad movie you've invested so much time into that you have to finish it. And for all the time you spend crawling all over the station pushing endless buttons, pulling endless levers, and (like the reviews said) having the goal posts moved all over the place......the ending is completely unsatisfying. This game is like an overly long novel that needed an editor to trim the fat (at least half the game) but was asleep at his desk and let it through to be published without the edits. Literally 99% of of everything in the game that had the hostile androids should have been cut out. They had nothing to do with the story, unlike Ash and Bishop. It was needless filler and it totally killed the flow of the game.

We all desperately wanted this game to be the Alien game we've all been waiting for, the game it looked like it could be in the teasers leading up to launch. One of my earliest memories as a child is seeing the Alien trailer on tv as a 5 year old in 1979. I still have the image of that trailer and my perception of it as a child etched into my brain. I've been with this franchise since the very beginning. But this is not that game. It could have been. But it's not.

I will still say every Alien fan should play it once, on the Easy difficulty so it doesn't drag on till half past never (although it still will anyway). It's still plenty hard enough on that setting. I'm willing to bet that after finishing it, most will be all too happy to trade it right in and be happy to be finally done with it.

Thanks for the review, buddy. I'll just wait until January or so and buy it used if it isn't worth an earlier purchase. Too bad cause the game sounded like it was going to be awesome but I just think these type of games (Outlast, Slender Man, et cetera) are meant as a quick, brief play through. Not an eight hours or more fully priced title or at least no one has created a game with this play mechanic that justifies a longer play time, IMO.

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[Picci]

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There's a report that a recent patch 1.1 release to fix bugs on the PS4 and XBone now crashes the PS4 game. I haven't played this game in a while. Stopped early in the game at;

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When she meets that guy. Can't remember his name but he reminds me of one of those nut jobs. Mumbling about the monster killer. Used the wrench to open the door to enter the next room. Stopped at this point.

Been busy with my franchises. You may not want to accept this update if your on PS4 and want to resume/begin/complete your game.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Any good deals on this for Black Friday?